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plot_period_transactions with low "s" parameter

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Hello, I have problem with plot_period_transactions for estimated Pareto/NBD parameters. Parameters:

OrderedDict([('r', 1.2264068998969124),
             ('alpha', 12.16294151917949),
             ('s', 4.6377925306795664e-10),
             ('beta', 32.52434379061591)])

I get this error message:

C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\lifetimes\generate_data.py:105: RuntimeWarning: divide by zero encountered in double_scalars
  time_of_death = stats.expon.rvs(scale=1. / mu)

I think this issue comes with “s” parameter, which is extreamly low. Could you confirm it? Is it bug or I do something wrong?

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albrzykowskicommented, Jul 26, 2019

Hi, @CamDavidsonPilon Do you have any conclusions why CLV is wrongly calculated for this dataset. Have you made any statistics that can explain the low value of s?

Kind regards, Leszek

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CamDavidsonPiloncommented, Sep 20, 2018

the s parameter controls how fast people die, so I would do some summary statistics on your training data. Perhaps there is something wrong there.

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